skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No worries! :) Looking fwd to the meetup.
The difference is sexualisation, which large swathes of America has problems with.
ITA has been writing Java for almost 10 years for their website.
It worries me that you see these people as analogous to violentacrez.
Scripted: A JavaScript editor from VMWare
If you recover the laptop re-install the software.

I will allow that if you _think_ you can recover it, then tracking your opponent is the best bet.

Maybe put DD on a deadman switch: if you don't check in every X hours poof. Now if they discover you can login ... they get a dead piece of hardware for their efforts.
Unfortunately US only at the moment.

Not sure what I find more irritating. US only or iOS only.

Both really. It's all one big step backwards.
That would be very nice.

I primarily read Instapaper (Marco's more well-known creation) on my Kindle rather than my tablets or phone.
The Strokes, The Walkmen and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs would like to have a word with you.
Microsoft Patched XSS Flaw After Google Researchers Found It in Hotmail
I entered my .us email address and is suggested I change it to .me. Also, the suggestion box covered up half the password field.

Other than that it's works very nicely. The Gravatar is a cool idea.
Making Twilio calls from Zabbix
The interesting thing about a 'diamond' planet is that it would be a waste of time. Diamond's value is superficial - it can't actually be used for anything (except cutting), so mining this planet would essentially cause diamonds to become worthless.

Whats more interesting is a planet made up of rare metals - that would still cause the prices to drop (this assumes the mining can easily generate lots of metal easily, transport costs aside), but can immediately be turned around into something useful.
It ends with a speculation that mining other planets doesn't sound so crazy any more.

Idiots. Diamond is not intrinsically valuable; carbon is not rare, and industrial diamond is fairly cheap. Humans (and in particular one cartel) set a high value on gemstone diamonds.

It's going to be cheaper to turn waste carbon into diamond here on Earth than it is to boost any sort of mining platform out to another planet or our own asteroid belt, and this will continue to be true for many many years.
Next months cover story "Defending my choice of iOS to launch this magazine"

I am amused that by appealing to the tech audience Marco set his release up to be nitpicked not for content or concept but by platform choice. Fitting but almost too meta.
> Which is an argument that flies legally, but not morally depending on what you believe.

Exactly like all the pro-/r/CreepShots/ arguments.
Stereotypical internet creep into all manner of "disgusting" things. Although his sexual preferences (and the content he posts) are very questionable, he's not a bad person. I think part of it is he enjoyed the drama, but at the same time he's just some guy with some interests that are beyond what most people deem acceptable.
This is true, the guy controls a lot of popular subreddits.

I don't go to Reddit anymore and I'm reading less and less comment threads here because of it's leakage.
I'd hope that a woman's underwear and vagina are just as protected under that law as some scumbag's address and phone number.
If I try it now, I get to see four articles for free. If I try it in two months (if it's still around), I get 16 articles for free. That seems like a much better sample of the content -- especially since if I was the publisher I would use my best articles for the launch and they might not be typical.
LWN seems to be doing fine, they also have a geek audience. The Humble Bundle also seems to be doing just fine without DRM.

I think with quality content people would pay for it. Not enough to make anyone rich, but certainly enough to fund the publication. By targeting iOS only he is missing out on a huge part of the geek universe as potential customers.
It's Reddit mods (volunteers) who started the banning only on their SubReddits. The admin and real staff haven't done anything (except ban /r/jailbait I suppose).
Interesting, the README file in /usr/share/dict contains this:

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#	$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1997/03/26 07:14:32 mikel Exp $

#	@(#)README	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93

WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs)

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Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.The 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier. The supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.

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It's pretty obvious from the video that you can leave stuff on the desk when you pull down the bed.
It's not very clear for me with all the drama around, but they were threatening him with revealing his real identity, didn't they?

It's easy to defend and justify stuff being anon.
Thanks for the link - just what I was looking for. Unfortunately it isn't available in the UK.
For all of the integration between Instapaper and Kindle, I think that it's a possibility.
I can't seem to get the "start your free trial" link to function from the "Introduction" article.
Yeah, it's odd considering Marco already produces very nice Kindle articles out of Instapaper, so he's familiar with the format. And Kindle supports subscriptions.
That says to not be creative just to entertain yourself. Be creative to solve problems. It is a polite way of saying "you aren't as smart as you think you are at 3am on a red bull binge". This advice was not invented by Google. Knuth or someone for one has a famous quote about it: debugging is harder than first draft, so how do you debug code that you wrote at peak cleverness?
I like the concept but IMHO the implementation falls short of the "simplest" adjective. For example, I look at source for webworkers [1], and then I have to look at files [2] and [3]. Is there any reason to not have everything in a single file? Again, we are going for "simple" not "good modularity". When I write out a simple example or test in C or Java, it's in a single file, so that the reader can follow the flow.

[1] https://github.com/samdutton/simpl/blob/master/webworkers/in...
[2] https://github.com/samdutton/simpl/blob/master/webworkers/js...
[3] https://github.com/samdutton/simpl/blob/master/webworkers/js...
> What is exactly wrong with taking pictures of clothed people on public places without their knowledge?

Serious question: You're a man, right?

Go take a survey of your friends about this. I'll bet you find a strong difference of opinion along gender lines.

Think about why that might be.
And the diamonds we do need for cutting can be synthesised on Earth pretty cheaply.
You don't have to use buy-in using real money in order to play. Right now, the app is only using a virtual currency, which can be translated into real winnings.
Indeed the full rate is close to a couple of ad-supported-magazine subscriptions, or less than 1 hour of pay for most of HN. My point was more about the confused wording of the value proposition than the value itself. Confused people spend money less than confident people.
Add .dk too
I was very excited about this, so I tried installing it on my iPhone 4S, with iOS5, and it says:

This app requires iOS 6.

Really?! Already?? :( I didn't upgrade because I want to keep my maps app. I hope Marco changes it to be iOS 5-compatible, since I know a lot of people who aren't upgrading to iOS 6 until it has decent maps.
Making It Right: Technical Debt vs. Slop
You're right about the anon bit but my own personal view is that unless someone has committed a crime (that can be proved beyond doubt) then posting people's real world identities is fucked up.
If I recall correctly the reason the female community turned on Saydrah was not the photos she posted, it was because she tried to manipulate the female community into backing her up by using some really sleazy stuff. She said her gender was the reason behind the situation and nobody agreed and tore her apart for it.

There's a post somewhere, I'll try and locate it. I was an active redditor during the drama.
Lots of apps and services and programs are US only or iOS only. It's just that few of them are the talk of HN on a Thursday morning.
>It is baffling that analysts can essentially divide their guidance by 2 overnight.

Maybe we should ask for a refund from the analysts? But seriously, it's free advice, we are getting what we pay for.
Show HN: The Burden of Dreams Magazine
Just launched earlier his month. What do you think?
The point isn't that they're analogous, the point is once you start drawing lines where it's ok to doxx people, you're on a slippery slope.

Oh, it's ok to do it to violentacrez, but not to someone slightly less creepy? Are you in favor of the slightly less creepy guy? What about someone talking about drugs online? Hacking?

I'm not usually a 'principle-above-the-particulars' kind of guy but when it comes to free speech and privacy online, you've gotta keep it absolute.
I am also a redditor and some of the subreddits are a really high-quality communities. What I don't understand is, why the reddit owners allow even the most disgusting and inhumane stuff to be posted, as long as it isn't illegal.

I am not sure if it is just because of the personal preference of the owners, or they do not want to waste time with enforcing at least basic civility, or is it some inherent part of the reddit's success that anything not illegal is allowed to be posted there?

It is actually an interesting moral question: Is someone allowed to publicly deanonymize someone else?
I already told in another reply that it is subjective.

But when they say "KISS Keep it simple stupid" one programmer could interpreter that as "OK for this messages management system what is more simple than a huge list of if statements" and another one could interpreted the same principle as "Hmm OK, I will have a list of closures to reduce verbosity"
The thing I found a little jarring about this, is that if you are not registered for gosquared, it still can get a gravatar you have registered on gravatar. Despite me not being registered, entering my email, it is as if they already have information on me.

This could be a little daunting to someone who doesn't understand how this is happening.
Node.js and TLSnappy: To lock, or not to lock
For those of you wondering why The Magazine is on iOS (first) and not a website, the answer is simple. Marco is just replicating the successful Instapaper business model:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-Readability-and-Instapaper...
It seems that that's what he's trying to figure out, as explained on the linked introductory post.[0] He's figuring out what is and isn't necessary in building and distributing a digital magazine.

[0]: http://the-magazine.org/1/foreword
Sounds like Hacker News but on iOS and curated by Marco. While I'm sure he's a great guy, I get something pretty similar for free, right here.
It sounds like they had been previously deprecated. Which implies eventual removal. The guy even says: "I admit I wasn't paying attention to their deprecation".
Well, nothing prevents this to be a 3-5 lines of Python with more suitable data structures:

$ pip install dawg

and then

import dawg
words = open('/usr/share/dict/words', 'r').read().splitlines()
d = dawg.DAWG(words)

(this example actually works)
The Beatles?
Try searching for "The Magazine" in the App Store. Shows you how well Apple's search algorithms work. App Store SEO is a black box, and I'm not even sure how Marco would improve his ranking with a name like "The Magazine."
*Note - iPad 1 can see the app in the App Store, but can't use it as it requires iOS 6.
Must-Tweet TV: How The Pioneers Of Social Television Turn Viewers Into VIPs
This is quite nice, just signed up.
Related: ITA Software's Carl de Marcken discussing their use of Common Lisp for Orbitz from 2001 with a 2002 update.

http://paulgraham.com/carl.html

Snippet:

ITA Software is slowly replacing the industry's hardware
and software with Common Lisp code running on Linux PCs,
that uses relatively involved algorithms that show off
our academic CS background.
I don't think it is useful to frame this as forums drama (which it certainly is on the surface), but as community self-policing. Yes, /r/politics, /r/atheism and Gawker are pretty similar, featuring shallow identity politics in easily consumable outrage-of-the-day snack packages.

But /r/politics and /r/atheism aren't the targets. Did you see /r/jailbait, /r/upskirt, /r/CreepShots, etc before they were taken down? Do you really put child porn, upskirt photos, and trading strategies for creeping on unsuspecting women in public in the same moral ballpark as shitty journalism?

/r/ShitRedditSays is right to eliminate these communities from Reddit and shame the participants. Sexual predators need to be confronted globally in any forum they are present in, and community confrontation is exactly what most of the offenders need. The presence of Gawker in the affair is a small price to pay to help reduce sexual violence.
While it is nice to see Facebook has no qualms about shutting down features, it is also problematic for people who build their businesses on a platform that is constantly shifting it's policies and features.
What license is this under?
That's a pretty nifty hack. Wish i thought of that before :)

Does anyone actually use the new 3D view in Firefox?
Very interesting, I have only one nitpick (maybe for the paranoid only) : why not show the cumulative distribution but pick 200$ as a threshold?
That, again, very much depends on your application design.

Sybase SQLServer (now ASE) was designed from the ground up as an OLTP database. It required that you keep your write and update transactions really short.

I've seen - and worked on projects - that had an amazing throughput. They where, however, designed from the ground up, to perform well on the underlying database.

Where Sybase' concurrency turned to dreadful, was when you ran chained transactions on isolation level 3. All I can say is: don't try this at home, folks.

Also, Oracle's locking mechanism didn't come free. I remember (and my Oracle knowledge is really minimal) the dreadful, overflowing rollback log, whoms sizing was a science of its own.

I'm not saying one is better then the other, but it points out quite nicely the impact of desing decisions. And how they always come with a price.
I don't think that Coding Horror article is very good. It is too hand-wavey and drawing an analogy that is stretched a little too far, without giving it a sufficiently hard background.

I think what he is trying to say is that Phil didn't test the higher order interactions enough, i.e. he didn't check that the effect that some pair of action have when done together (and the effect of triples, etc.). This is very important to note, and a good point. (I think one should preferably run a fully crossed factorial experiment[0], so that every combination is tested.)

But it is just saying "don't do A/B testing wrong", which is obviously true. I think a lot of problems with A/B testing are caused by people who don't have much statistical knowledge missing some of the subtleties that comes with any experimental design.

(On that note, there are many articles[1] about why one needs to be careful using A/B testing, which do have the backing of statistics.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial_experiment
[1]: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html, http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2009/statistical-significance-other...
Good point - the reason for it is we wanted it to be entirely independent of our users db for security/privacy reasons (and simplicity!)
I think EP describes a problem, whereas how much data you have to move around is dependent on your implementation. For example, SETI@home is an EP problem that could be run on a multicore machine completely in parallel without moving data. The fact that it is run on many computers over the internet doesn't change that it's EP. In fact, it is exactly because it is EP that it can be run @home.
I was confused because I thought violentacrez was some how related to the now-defunct mommy-blogger-hating blog http://www.violentacres.com/

Just a coincidence, I guess.

And that just goes to show you the danger of writing anonymously on the Internet, the next person to use the same nickname as you might be a drama-causing pedo.

Does anyone know if there's some source for "violent acres / violet acres" that they're both riffing off of?
Which candidate is leading the Web Perf race?
That's the problem right there. Do you really need something more than an html/php/js/css web browser?!
Thanks! I found some interesting meetups but as you said it's a bit late now. I will plan my next visit better. Definitely gonna get back here in Summber! :-)
Possibly, but you don't usually try to login before signing up... right?
How Prototype assists in Object tracking using JavaScript
There is an untold story involving software licenses. Many software are licensed to run on certain PE (cpu core) counts. A 1024 PE license costs you 64 times as much as single host license. Moreover the software costs may easily exceed the core costs.

In these cases the bottleneck is software fees and the easiest solution is to use higher quality cores.
The query language isn't pretty (that's what I thought at first, too!), but it's derived from Datalog/Prolog, AND it is simple (not easy, at first, since unusual), but I'd rather it NOT look too much like SQL. Just like I don't confuse Ruby programming with Clojure.
Because it is targeting people for the sole intention of harassing them at a global level. The TwoX thread had a few stories of people finding out second-hand that they were posted on there, how demeaning it was and how powerless they felt to do anything about it. They then had to deal with the repercussions of other friends/family/co-workers coming across it and all of the sleezy or insulting things said in the comments about them. No one deserves that.

Now think if the picture was taken at or around their workplace and what could happen. I can only imagine that there are bottomfeeders out there who went out of their way to try to locate where one of these women was.

While doxxing someone isn't the answer, something needs to be done so that bullies/trolls get the help they need and we can prevent something terrible from happening to one of the people posted.
Marco Arment just uses the tools he likes to use. I think it’s as simple as that. I don’t think building a website (with paywall, payment processor, etc.) is his idea of fun. By doing it the way he did it he keeps it simple and makes it possible to let this continue to be a one man operation.

It’s very much an experiment and if it doesn’t work he will stop (http://the-magazine.org/1/foreword). That’s it. It’s not an affirmation of the supremacy of iOS as a publishing platform or a subtle diss at Android. It just is.
The point is when you get to decide who deserves anonymity online, other people with different opinions than yourself do too. There are plenty of people out there who would consider being gay just as morally damaging.
If your upstream bandwidth to Google is poor, chances are, your upstream bandwidth is poor for most other users. In other words, I would consider this an issue on its own, and one definitely worth investigating.

CDN's are popular for static content, but there are a number of very good reasons to proxy dynamic content through your CDN as well. The most obvious advantage is that you can terminate the TCP connection much closer to the user, and then can leverage the optimized backhaul network to fetch from origin. This alone can be a huge win, especially if you have SSL in the mix, which requires 2-3 RTT's before it can even send the request.
That just launched the in-app purchase alert for me. Then when I paid I swiped right to access the menu. It could be that you have in-app purchase disabled on your device.
Those who live by the platform die by the platform. You get a lot of distribution using the platform, but you have to switch channels occasionally and monitor how well the channel is doing independently. In the meantime, keep growing that email list..
Until DeBeers makes sure that 'Certified Space Diamonds' are what you really want if you want to impress your significant other.
I can't see to get the App Store URL to work.
The Guardian UK have a lovely iPad app, but the iPhone app isn't nearly as good.
I just use a Japanese futon and it works great. It's also the most comfortable "bed" I've ever had, with the best back support: the floor.
Violentacrez original reddit name was violentacres and was based off of the original one (the person you linked).
Turning Foursquare Check-Ins into a History Lesson 
great new add-on from one of the engineers at Foursquare that connects your foursquare check-ins with SepiaTown data
Right. It wasn't posted on reddit, it was posted to tumblr.
I believe that content should be written for a platform. Which is why putting magazines on newsstand by putting images in an application hasn't sold well. This content targets the iOS using audience and is written for the format.

The tools iOS provide will at least allow them to test if selling an iOS only publication works.
Reddit's defaults are pretty bad -- I think a huge upgrade would be when a first time visitor registers, they are shown SFW r/all and then similar to signing up for Pinterest, asks about your interests, then displays a list of several subs that might be most relevant to your interests. As a rock climbing, coffee loving Seattleite who loves to learn about science, r/climbing, r/coffee, r/seattle and r/askscience are great!

And the Gawker network is after one thing, pageviews. So the more controversy they conjure up the better.
Who's to say the value of Diamond has yet been truly appreciated? If I'm understanding things correctly this diamond would have formed under conditions we simply cannot recreate in a manufacturing process, given the magnitude of time and energy involved. It is not inconceivable that the properties of these carbon crystals could be VERY appealing. For an example I recall a statistic that claimed the entire _data throughput_ of the UK could be encoded on a crystal of carbon barely the size of a grain of sand. Space elevators and orbital rings spring to mind as well, and who's even saying that we want to get this stuff back to dirty old earth when we're jetting around the cosmos in our hyper diamond meta skeletons on stellar farm errands!?
He talked about this over multiple episodes on Build & Analyze. You would be shocked at the iOS 6 adoption numbers.
If users other than the creator can experience it without being totally lost, it's time to launch. Aside from known security holes or absolute breakage, things can be iterated and added in as a work in progress.

For one, the features priority list may be different from the masses... creator may think that Feature A is what everyone wants, but in actuality users care more about Feature B. Or someone may suggest Feature X that was never considered, which makes A & B completely irrelevant.

For two, a good way to get an idea of where a UI/UX excels and fails is to hand it to people that are unfamiliar with it. The flow may make perfect sense to the creator, but the unseen problems will become apparent once others start using it and giving feedback.

Overall, if someone is wondering "is it time to launch?" then it's probably time to launch.
The value of patents to a startup
Those are 'custom opengraph' stories and not wallposting on a user's behalf -- this announcement is unrelated.
Based on what he's said on his podcast, that isn't going to happen
astyle works fine with c++
Appeals court reverses sales ban on Samsung smartphone
Absolutely. Just a one or two sentence blurb or even just a relevant tagline under the logo.
It would also be good with a "Was this review helpful"-button a la Amazon, so the reviews can be ordered according to helpfulness.